S. Shakthidharan

S. Shakthidharan is an Australian playwright with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. Gather Up Your World In One Long Breath is his debut book.

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S. Shakthidharan

S. Shakthidharan is an Australian storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. His plays Counting and Cracking (“One of the great Australian plays” – The Guardian), The Jungle and the Sea and The Wrong Gods have won critical, commercial and community acclaim and toured extensively. Gather Up Your World In One Long Breath, with Powerhouse Publishing, is his debut book. It will be accompanied by a year-long, companion artwork with the Museum. Shakthi has a feature film, plays, TV series and multi-disciplinary works in development. He’s the Director of Kurinji, was previously Director of Co-Curious, and was Founder and Artistic Director of CuriousWorks from 2003-2018. Shakthi is a Creative Australia and Sidney Myer Fellow, and a recipient of the Phillip Parson’s and Kirk Robson awards.

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A simple brown book cover with the title "gather up your world in one long breath" in metallic blue lettering filling the full page

Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath

Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.

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